18763rd May: The Goole Market Hall was opened to the public. The old market was held in Chapel Street & was nothing more than a shed belonging to the Aire and Calder Navigation with a rude form round 3 sides of which the market people used to sit, the front being open. This was not a market in the strictly legal sense of the word. There was no grant either by Charter or by royal letters patent, & the country people who brought their wares to sell ran no risks, as they came under the category of perishables, & to vend them they did not require a hawker's licence. The new building was erected by a company as a rival to the Chapel Street institution. It consisted at first of a plain Market Hall, shops & offices being added.

At first the new venture and the old claimed equal patronage; the second week of its opening, however, the traders flocked to the new building, and that became the established market.

1877The streets are well paved & lighted from the Aire & Calder Gas Works. The portion of the town called Old Goole extends southwards along the banks of the Ouse, & is separated from the New town by the River Don, or Dutch River, over which is a wooden bridge. The houses are very irregularly built, several new streets have been formed, & gas works were erected in 1865. The chief portion is situated to the north of the docks, & consists of several regularly formed streets; the principal thoroughfare, Aire Street contains many-well built shops, The Lowther & the Sydney hotels, and the railway station. East-parade, facing the river, has some good private houses, The Post office & York City & County Bank. The public Rooms are in Adam-street. The Liberal Association Reading Rooms are in Banks-terrace. Near the barge dock are the iron foundries occupied by Thomas Scott & R. Cooper respectively, & on the canal side are the Goole Alum & Chemical Works, & those of the Pure tillage & Cattle food Company. There are also shipbuilding yards, sail-lofts, roperies, & the timber yard of E. Maud & Sons. The Sailors Institute is in Banks-terrace.

1878April 20th: This day a fire broke out in a wooden shop in Aire Street opposite Lowther Hotel. It was tenanted by Mr W. Dingwall whose estimation of damages was 200 £. but was covered by insurance. The cause of the conflagration was supposed to be overheating of stove The stock was entirely consumed & the two shops on either side of it was also slightly damaged. ...At this time you could get into Aire Street by going along the south end of Railway Dock over the floating bridge (A boat with decks much broader than its beam & sails which was removed owing to the gutway being widened & a halfpenny ferry was established in its place.) passing the office of the Steam Shipping Co Ltd (removed to build Aldem Dock) along the end of gardens which were boarded from the road & coming out near the Lowther Hotel. A number of wooden shops stood on the east side of the gardens with the Lan & Yorks Railway station at the north end but the whole were removed to excavate for the dock.

1879Tues Dec 16th: As George Milson, eating house keeper, was going to bed he thought he heard a crackling noise like that emitted when wood is burning. He came down stairs again & on looking about found the shop occupied by Frank Tate furniture dealer to be on fire. He gave an alarm & help was soon at hand but Mr Tate his wife & 3 children had to make their escape through the back bedroom window in their nightdresses by means of a ladder. The block of buildings containing four shops were entirely ruined. They were the property of the City of Manchester Permanent Building Society.

1888THE BUILDING TRADE IN GOOLE. – “Westward the course of empire takes its way,” it has been said, but leaving the question of the accuracy of the assertion to be settled by others we would point out that westward seems to be the course of the future as far as Goole is concerned. During the last two or three years the extent of the building works in Boothferry-road, beyond the railway gates has been considerable, and its activity may be taken to indicate the prosperity of the town generally. Building operations have, of course been carried on in other portions of the town, principally on Hook-road, but they have been more limited in scope than those on the first named thoroughfare. The Potter Grange estate of Mr W. H. C. Dunhill and the Pasture-road estate of Mr A. Montagu are being rapidly covered with newly-built cottages and shops and a further advances has just been made in regard to the first-named property, seven acres of which Messrs Jackson Bros. have just purchased for building purposes. The plot in question extends from the Imperial Buildings to the Victoria Pleasure Ground in Carter-street and will, at any early date, be laid out by the purchasers. In Pasture-road several new streets have been erected and others are in active progress towards completion. From these facts it would appear that not only has the stream of population set in a westerly direction, but the probability is very great that the West End will, in the near future, be one of the chief centres of trade in the town. There also exists a very encouraging prospect for the building trade which, according to information received from various sources, promises shortly to be unusually brisk.

Date unknown:The chief portion of the town is situated north of the docks, and consists of several regularly formed streets. The principal thoroughfare (Aire-street) contains many well-built shops, and the Lowther and Sydney Hotels. East Parade, facing the river, has some good private houses. Of late years the town has extended rapidly beyond the railway gates in Boothferry-road, there being, it is estimated, a resident population in this particular neighbourhood of nearly 4,000. There are several handsome shops in this locality.

The removal of the old vicarage in Boothferry-road to make way for the handsome row of shops now being erected will have the effect of improving the aspect of that thoroughfare to a desirable extent.

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